Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 5 Aug 2009, at 20:44, Jim Simmons wrote: > Dennis, > > There is no audio on either video. > > It looks like most of the Sugar videos are on dailymotion. I would > post mine there if I was convinced that nobody could improve on what I > did. I was hoping that Dave C or someone else

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Simmons
Dennis, There is no audio on either video. It looks like most of the Sugar videos are on dailymotion. I would post mine there if I was convinced that nobody could improve on what I did. I was hoping that Dave C or someone else could take the original .ogv and use Final Cut Pro to make something

[IAEP] GPA Class Notes August 5

2009-08-05 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Here are my notes from the last class at Gardner public school on August 5. Caroline, Bill, Anurag and I had a class with 9 x 3rd graders. Caroline led the class. Caroline introduced the class and saying we could not finish making the games but we would try to make the computer talk and

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-08-05

2009-08-05 Thread Walter Bender
===Sugar Digest=== 1. As Caroline Meeks and I are wrapping up the Sugar-on-a-Stick summer programs, it has been a time to reflect upon what we have learned and what challenges face us in September (Many thanks to Greg, Anurag, Jennifer, et al. for their help). The goal of our pilots was to identif

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Dennis Daniels
James, There is definitely more polish here http://people.sugarlabs.org/jdsimmons/ReadEtextsTheMovie.avi Is there audio on either the .avi or .ogg? If yes, I didn't hear either. May I suggest you put the .avi video on youtube? I really believe that Sugar needs more screen time... people need to s

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Dennis Daniels wrote: > All my efforts with SoaS, avec et sans screencasting, have been > _disappointing_. Please report your problems on sugar-devel, so that we can try to figure out why Strawberry isn't working on your machines. >> I think screencasting is a neat idea but the hardware most like

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Simmons
Dennis, I use gtk-recordmydesktop to do the screencasts, running Sugar at 800x600 on an IBM NetVista I bought surplus. I then use Kino to edit. You *might* be able to get a screencast at a higher resolution with a more powerful box, but the video would end up at 640x480 anyway so maybe that woul

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Dennis Daniels
Jim, Fair enough! You are echoing what most everyone on the IRC has said as well. I'm going to dive into running Sugar on top of Ubuntu today on my fairly powerful machine and see if I can get some decent recordings. Sugar needs a face and preferably that face would be of a six year old doing amaz

Re: [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Education_Team#Commentary

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Simmons
Dennis, I think screencasting is a neat idea but the hardware most likely to run Sugar won't have the horsepower to capture a full size screen and in the case of the XO might not have enough disk space to do it either. See my other emails for my experiences making videos like this. It may do a l

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] First stab at a questionnaire for deployments (was: First step towards an efficient feedback process)

2009-08-05 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:34, Christoph > Derndorfer wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Christoph Derndorfer > > wrote: > >> > >> ... > > > > Since I had some minutes to spare I took a first quick stab at what such > a > > questionnai

[IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Simmons
Dave and David, Yesterday I did a screen capture of Read Etexts in action, then fired up Kino to edit it and add title cards. The results are not awful, but perhaps could be improved with better editing software. I have posted the original capture in Ogg Video format, plus my finished product wh

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] First stab at a questionnaire for deployments (was: First step towards an efficient feedback process)

2009-08-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:34, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Christoph Derndorfer > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Christoph Derndorfer >> wrote: >>> >>> So, to end this with an actionable item I would suggest that we start >>> flashing out a process